The monograph investigates the theoretical foundations of the dietomatic typologies of the cultures of the West and the East in the light of the general cultural context of their construction. The East in Western European art does not act in its real hypostasis, but as a combination of mythological texts. It is proposed to distinguish between the East as a geographical concept and the East (Orient) as a “mythological space” constructed by Western European culture and art, which has only an indirect attitude towards the real East. It was revealed that for the art of Western Europe of the XIX-XX centuries, the East as a myth comes to the fore. It is traced that the mythologization of the East was inherent in European art and culture throughout their existence.
The book can be interesting to orientalists, culturalists and cultural philosophers, art historians, students of humanitarian universities, as well as all the processes of interaction between cultures of the East and West.
Author
Grishin Mikhail Vladimirovich
Editor
Igoshina E.V.
Publisher
State Institute of Art Authority, 2013
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